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Dates: during 1880-1889
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...Papanti, of Boston, is now engaged on a work which, when finished, will be of interest to every Harvard man. It is a souvenir in the form of a collection of pictures of the various buildings of the University. The pictures will be arranged on one large sheet, twenty-four by thirty-two inches. In the middle will be a view of the college yard, surrounded by a border made up of the medals and seals of the different societies. Grouped about this centre will be pictures of all the buildings connected in any way with the University. Below...
...Yale papers, and it will be strange if at the meeting of Yale men to celebrate Yale's success in athletics, tomorrow night, such claims will not be still more recklessly put forth. We have shown repeatedly how false and misleading these claims are, especially in the form in which they are circulated, but we have not been able to prevent the acceptance of them by college papers and the general public which have had no way to test the truth of them. We repeat again the true record. Princeton won the games of '73, '78, and '85. Yale...
...Jellinek said that to understand Burke we must take into account the circumstances that surrounded him. He never forgot his native country, and his speeches on Irish questions form the most valuable of his works. Burke was conservative and a utilitarian, always calm and just in his opinions and his actions. He wished to place Ireland on an equal commercial footing with England, and endeavored to show that Ireland's prosperity would be England's prosperity. When he entered on his political career, Ireland was regarded merely as a colony to be governed solely for the advantages of England...
...Wheeler will give today the second of his lectures on the Acropolis at Athens. The Propylaea will form the topic of the lecture...
These lectures are but a part of the lecture system which forms so important and instinctive a feature of Harvard life. This system has been developed so that now such a variety of topics is treated that nearly every taste is satisfied at some time during the year. As a source and means of general culture their effectiveness cannot be over-estimated. They generally treat of a broader range of subjects than can be taken up in a college course, and so form a good supplement to the regular student's work...